Device for taking nails out of kegs



(No Model.)

B. 0. ARNETT. DEVIGB FOR TAKING NAILS OUT OF KEGS.

No. 465,312. v Patented Dec. 15,1891

UNITED STATES PATENT OFF-ICE.

ROBERT C. ARNETT, OF FREDERIOKTOWN, MISSOURI.

DEVICE FOR TAKING NAILS OUT OF KEGS.

SPEGIFICATIOR' forming part of Letters Patent NO. 465,312, dated December 15, 1891'.

Application filed March 30, 1891- Serial No. 387,072- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT C. ARNETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fredericktown, in the county of Madison, in the State of Missouri, have invented and produced a new and original Device for Handling or Taking Nails out of Kegs, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part thereof.

The object of the invention is to do away with handling nails with the hands in retail trade; and the invention consists of a machine or contrivance by which the nails may be extracted from the bottom of a keg or from the bottom of the box on which the handleris attached.

Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 in the drawings represent the parts of the handler, and the letters A B O D represent the nail-handler complete.

Fig. 1 represents one box of the handler complete, which is or may be constructed of wood or iron, and the box may be either square or hopper-shaped. If hopper-shaped the box will taper from the top to the bottom, leaving a throatsix by fourinches. If square, the sides and ends mustbe so lined as to form a mitered curvical shape at the bottom, leaving a throat six by four inches. Five boxes constitute a set, or the set may be more or less at the option of the purchaser, and each box is large enough to contain a keg of nails.

Fig. 2 represents the back and two sides on the interior; also how the end of the spout fits over the throat of box. (See letter A.)

suspended near the middle to one end of a link, while the other end of the link is attached to a pivot or pin on the box, so when the fork is taken by the upper end or the handle and forced downward-the lower end or fork is naturally forced inwardly and upward through the spout until the hand or fork C closes up the throat of'the box 1 and cuts off the flow of nails when held still until the door at the end of thespout 3 can be closed, and the fork C may then be brought back to a perpendicular position to its proper place while not in use. Should the nails choke up in the spout or throat, all hat is necessary is to Work the fork C slightly up or down on box 1 which will cause the nected to said box so as to be reciprocated in said trough, substantially asdescribed.

ROBERT C. ARNETT. Witnesses:

R. ALBERT, J. H. KoEN. 

